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The Reading & Northern Mount Carmel job switches International Paper in Mount Carmel Junction before returning to Port Clinton.
The Landisville Railroad's SW900M prepares to gather outbound cars for the NS interchange a couple of miles to the north. Despite the Chessie-inspired livery, this is a former Lehigh Valley engine by way of Conrail. Taken on railroad property with permission and escort.
NYSW WS-2 switching out cars in MC before heading west towards PC and beyond to work industries around the area. SD40-2 #3022, a former Southern “High Hood” SD40-2 has the honors for the night.
This train of cars went back an forth across this road crossing 3 times on Friday afternoon rush hour as it navigated tracks.
A former Southern Pacific SW1500 still sporting KCTL flying diamonds is used by KAW train 610, the Bedford Yard Job, as it crosses 10th St after putting away pulls for BNSF to pick up tonight.
The Bedford Industrial Complex is leased from BNSF and switched by Watco's Kaw River Railroad. A BNSF job out of Murray Yard interchanges with the KAW at Bedford Yard next to 10th St a several times per week. The KAW's switchers are kept within the Ingredion plant, which Watco also switches. 7/10/25.
A pair of leased Geeps crawl through an alley with a cut of empty waste cars for New York Waste Management on the Bushwick branch. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Mass Coastal 2008 is seen departing Maritime Terminal Inc. in New Bedford, MA after switching out the load for the empty.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Where electrics once roamed. GIO's Welland job switches out cars for Ardent Milling, which will be transloaded on the westernmost track at the London Agricultural Commodities elevator (the former Robin Hood facility.)
Constructed in 1940, the Robin Hood Flour Mill received rail service from the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway via a spur from their Welland Division mainline on Elm Street. An electric locomotive was based at the foot of Elm Street in Port Colborne as an outpost assignment, servicing this facility in what was then known as the community of Humberstone, amalgamating with Port Colborne in 1952. Electric service on the NS&T ceased in 1960, with CNR diesels taking over the assignment. The yard pictured contained only the main and east siding at the time, while over on Elm Street, a short stretch of the old NS&T main was kept south of Barrick Road for switching purposes. This arrangement remained until the connection at the north end of the elevator was constructed in 1983-1984 to the Canal Sub. Per Paul Duncan, this connection appears to have been the CN Casco Lead until being handed off to the Port Colborne Harbour Railway. The connection south to the former Dunnville Sub would be built in 1997 with startup of PCHR operations.
The Robin Hood Flour Mill would be closed in 2008 by Horizon Milling, and later sold to Ceres Global Ag in 2010 to be used primarily for grain storage and export. Space in the elevator would be leased to London Agricultural Commodities effective 2019, with LAC purchasing the facility in 2023. Shortly before the end of NS&T electric operations, this unit was built. Rolling out of GMDD London in 1955 as CNR 2013, this GP9 would be renumbered in 1956 to CN 4464. In 1986, it would be rebuilt as GP9RM 7224, and sold to Lambton Diesel Services in 2021.
Looking at 1930s aerial imagery, this site can be seen prior to the elevator's construction. Steve Host's recent research pointed out the abandoned right of way from the Welland Ship Canal Construction Railway. It would appear just north of the elevator location was a dump site for earth and other construction debris, and the construction "mainline" cut across the canal near this location. Comparing 1930s and 1940s imagery, one can see this track runs along the former construction railway right of way from the point where 7224 is seen above, right to the elevator silos.
GIO Welland Job
LDSX 7224, LDSX 269
GIO Harbour Spur
Port Colborne, ON.
Those of you who follow my work know I have a thing for shooting freight under wire. Well this past Thursday I got a tip that CSXT Middleboro based daytime local B727 would be making a relatively uncommon move that was long on my wish list to shoot. B727 runs five days per week between Middleboro and Attleboro on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal maintained and dispatched Middleboro Subdivision serving customers and interchanging with the MC along the way.
On Thursdays they normally sneak out on to Amtrak's NEC main at BORO interlockong for a two and half mile shove west down Track 4 to East Junction to work a couple customers on that historic bit of trackage that I've written about in this caption: flic.kr/p/2jck93J
But there is one other customer in the area that every once in a while gets a switch. And on this day after shoving out they reversed direction and ran east a mile to a short twisting lead splitting off just short of Holden interlocking. This lead reaches down into the building of Polyfiber Inc. a subsidiary of Holland Manufacturing makers of industrial packaging, specialty coated and laminated products, water activated tapes and other products.
B726 has run the mile west with three cars trailing three GP40-2s. Just short of Holden they stopped and made two trips down and back on the lead to pull one empty and spot one load before shoving back east through Attleboro station toward East Junction. They are seen here pulling out of the building with three geeps to head back to the Amtrak mainline at MP 198.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Thursday January 14, 2021
On Houston's northside, UP 680 switches scrap gons out of Commercial Metals at Tower 71 on the West Belt. After wrapping up their work, they'll swing around the corner at Tower 26 nearby to head back to the bottom end of Settegast Yard.
The green signal to the left is a lineup for the Big Boy, which will be passing through in a few minutes on its way to the top end of Settegast Yard.
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UP GP38N #680
Houston, TX
October 4th, 2024
Two rarities in 21st century railroading - an active interlocking tower and an end-cab switcher - converge at the north end of Washington's Union Station. K Tower is alive and well guarding the throat of the terminal and the surrounding area, while Amtrak's switcher fleet is kept busy pulling cuts of cars in and out of Washington's largely stub-ended terminal.
Ann Arbor's switch job pulls four cars from the "Harbor" (former Blade Warehouse) at the extreme south end of the Olive Industrial just north of downtown Toledo on a cold snowy February morning.
Pan Am Railways PORU switches out cars at the feed mill in N. Leeds, ME. Three blue dip Geeps were a treat on this dreary February day.
We spent a couple hours in the morning watching the Gas Local switch out the tank car facility at Pipeline. Figured it could make for a cool framing shot to show that view from the back seat.
MRL Day Gas Local
MRL SD70ACe #4408
MRL SD70ACe #4315
Thompson Falls, MT
May 5th, 2022
Stagecoach London Metrocity EV 67021 (YJ24BHY) is seen at Walthamstow Central on route W19 to Walthamstow, Argall Avenue.
Lighting is still not quite where I would like it but the light box works for what it is. I think I need to raise the work lights off the ground and angle them down through the box.
HESR 8802 switches Georgia Pacific on the west side Owosso as a lite rain/mist falls on a rather nasty January night. As a kid i used to watch 8802, 8804 and the other CMGN and HESR units switch this line over the years. With the Railamerica take over by G&W and all their repainting & moving of power, it is really nice to see this engine working Owosso. 8802 and the 4 former HESR GP38's are the only ones left on the HESR that have not been renumbered or repainted. It is only a matter of time.
Long Island RR Alco switchers at work. No other info, scan of a print in my collection. The print appears to have been hastily made (or perhaps the neg was damaged), but I thought it was an interesting scene.
IC 1024 switches the east end of Joliet Yard while what I believe is a CNIGAL pulls into the yard for a setout on the west end. From what I've seen in past photos, this former EJ&E network hub used to be packed to the gills with activity. Not quite so in the present day. July 2025
Cargill Alco S2M loads a string of grain cars at Gillman, IL. This locomotive was rebuilt with a CAT diesel under the hood. The Alco S-4 that was once here, an original Santa Fe unit, had been donated to a museum in Arizona.
GP-7 4296 switches an industry track in Elburn, Illinois on a very cold February 10th, 1988. This unit was rebuilt from the 1650 in November 1980 at the C&NW's Oelwein shops.
Bringing train 664 into Overbrook, 642 makes another autumn appearance on the Keystone Corridor. MOW is hard at work replacing a switch as part of a weekend project.